2-702-406 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Philipp II', (1933). Portrait of a nobleman, previously thought to have been a portrait of King Philip II of Spain and Portugal (1527-1598). After a miniature of 1583 in an enamel and rock crystal mount, with a scene of the crucifixion on the reverse, by Nicholas Hilliard. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]